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Asus Tinker Board Introduction

Created 11/02/2017 | Getting started with the Tinker Board

The Tinker Board is a small ARM based computer from Asus. The board contains a 40 pin GPIO connector which can be used with a selection of our expansion boards.

Asus provides a Debian based Linux distribution that can be downloaded from their support website.

If you wish to use the Tinker Board with an Ethernet connection, you will first need to boot Linux and wait for the desktop to load. Next you need to go to the network icon in the bottom right corner of the screen and select Auto Ethernet. You will then be able to access the network or connect to Linux using SSH.

The default username and password are:

username: linaro
password: linaro

We have tested our Python 2 libraries on the Tinker Board, to download our libraries from our GitHub account you first need to install git with:

sudo apt-get install git

Next you need to navigate to the directory you want to download the libraries into and use the following command to clone the files to your local directory: